Destroy, at the first taking of the city, ver. 18., and chap. iv. 27. --- Branches. Children of Jechonias, (chap. xxii. 30.) and the people. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "her battlements," (Haydock) Chaldean, "palaces."
Verse Jeremiah 5:10. _GO YE UP UPON HER WALLS_] This is the permission and authority given to the Chaldeans to pillage Jerusalem. _TAKE AWAY HER BATTLEMENTS_] Some translate נטישות _netishoth,_ _bra...
HER WALLS - It is Possible that not the city walls, but those of a vineyard are meant. Judaea is God’s vineyard Isaiah 5:1, and God permits the enemy to enter the vineyard to destroy her. BATTLEMENTS...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The apostate conditions of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 5:1) _ 2. The impending judgment (Jeremiah 5:10) 3. Sowing and reaping (Jeremiah 5:19) 4. The horrible thing ...
THE COMING OF THE FOE. Let the enemy, therefore, destroy the vineyard of Judah, for of its owner Judah has said, He does nothing, rejecting His warnings by (true) prophets. The word they have rejected...
NOT. FULL END. Compare Jeremiah 5:18, and Jeremiah 4:27....
Judah is likened to a vineyard. So in Jeremiah 12:10; Isaiah 5:1 ff. _her walls_ This sense for the MT. as here vocalised is very questionable. It is best, changing one vowel, to take the meaning to b...
See summary at beginning of section....
GO YE UP, &C.— See Jeremiah 5:17 and the note on Jeremiah 5:27 of the preceding chapter. Instead of _take away her battlements,_ &c. Houbigant reads, _Leave her foundations, for they are the Lord's._...
3. _Treacherous unbelief_ (Jeremiah 5:10-18) TRANSLATION (10) Go up against her rows and destroy, but do not make a full end; Remove her shoots for they do not belong to the LORD. (11) For the house...
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's. Abrupt apostrophe to the Babylonians, to take Jerusalem, but not to destroy th...
5:10 end; (f-13) Or 'a consumption;' ch. 4.27. battlements, (g-17) Some, referring it to a vine, read 'tendrils' or 'shoots.'...
1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness....
Jerusalem is likened to a walled־in vineyard, and the Chaldean host is bidden to batter and trample it. Yet the overthrow shall not be complete, for Israel is, after all, a chosen nation. BATTLEMENTS]...
WALLS. — Better, _her palm-trees._ The Hebrew word is found in Ezekiel 27:25, though not in the English Version, in the sense of “mast,” and here, apparently, means the tall, stately trunk of the palm...
עֲל֤וּ בְ שָׁרֹותֶ֨יהָ֙ וְ שַׁחֵ֔תוּ וְ כָלָ֖
Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would under
Having thus declared that judgment was determined on, the prophet now carefully declared the reason for it. This was, first, the utter corruption of conduct. Among the people not a man was to lie foun...
(h) Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: (i) take away her battlements; for they [are] not the LORD'S. (h) He commands the Babylonians and enemies to destroy them. (i) Read...
Mark Reader, I pray you, in those days as now, how the Lord mingles compassion with punishment. Destroy, saith the Lord: but make not a full end. There is a blessing in it. Isaiah 65:8. Oh! how sweet...
Here God by the mouth of his Prophet addresses the enemies of his people, whom he had appointed to be the ministers of his vengeance: and this was usual with the prophets, when they sought more effect...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be unto th...
GO YE UP UPON HER WALLS, AND DESTROY,.... These are the words of the prophet, or of the Lord by the prophet, to the Chaldeans, ordering them to ascend the walls of Jerusalem, and break them down, as t...
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they [are] not the LORD'S. Ver. 10. _Get ye up upon her battlements, and destroy._] _Ascendite et exscind...
_Go ye up upon her walls_, &c. Ye Babylonians, go, execute my vengeance on them; _and destroy_ I commission you not only to take the city, but to make havoc of its inhabitants. _But make not a full en...
FAITHLESSNESS AND TREACHERY...
Go ye up upon her walls and destroy, scaling them in a successful attack upon them; BUT MAKE NOT A FULL END, so that Judah's existence would forever be at an end; TAKE AWAY HER BATTLEMENTS, or, "hew o...
10-18 Multitudes are ruined by believing that God will not be so strict as his word says he will; by this artifice Satan undid mankind. Sinners are not willing to own any thing to be God's word, that...
GO YE UP UPON HER WALLS; ye Babylonians, go now execute my vengeance on them. I give them into your hands; behold, I give you a commission. AND DESTROY; I permit and order you not only to take the cit...
Jeremiah 5:10 up H5927 (H8798) walls H8284 destroy H7843 (H8761) make H6213 (H8799) end H3617 away...
YHWH CALLS ON HIS CHAMPION, WHOSE GREAT MIGHT HE MAKES CLEAR, IN ORDER THAT HIS FORCES MIGHT DENUDE JUDAH BECAUSE OF THEIR TREACHERY TOWARDS HIM (JEREMIAH 5:10). The instrument of YHWH's judgment is c...
YHWH PRESENTS THE REASONS WHY THE INVASION IS NECESSARY (JEREMIAH 5:1). Invasion is seen as necessary because there are no righteous people in Jerusalem, and they are full of adultery (both spiritual...
Jeremiah 5:10. _Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for the are not the LORD'S. For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very tre...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. God's charges against them and the judgments threatened. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Sinners have reason to expect punishment on account of...
Jeremiah 5:2. _Though they say the Lord liveth, surely they swear falsely._ These words being in every one's mouth, are but words, not sentiments. If men knew the grandeur of God, and studied his perf...
_Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord’s._ STORMING THE BATTLEMENTS I. I shall regard this text as spoken concerning the...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The description here of unblushing immorality and total disorganisation leads Kimchi and others to date this chapter after Josiah’s times;...
EXPOSITION Is the punishment thought too severe? Then let the moral condition of Jerusalem be inquired into. Must not such transgressions precipitate its people into ruin? There are four well-marked...
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...
2 Chronicles 36:17; 2 Kings 24:2; Amos 9:8; Ezekiel 12:16; Ezeki
Ye — Ye Babylonians, go execute my vengeance on them. Battlements — Lay her and all her fortifications level with the ground. For — I disown them....